There Is No Good Part of Hitler's Mein Kampf

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🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 26 As most New Discourses fans will know, back in October 2018, James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose burst onto the scene with a scandalous expose of Critical Social Justice scholarship within academia. This effort to show the world what was going on in the humanities and (to lesser extent) social sciences research literature was billed the "Grievance Studies Affair" (https://newdiscourses.com/2020/01/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/), and the trio told their story in detail when the Wall Street Journal ended up breaking the story. The expose involved (https://leiterreports.typepad.com/files/project-summary-and-fact-sheet.pdf) their having written 20 academic papers in about 10 months and seeing 7 of those accepted, 4 published, and 1 (about dog sex) having received recognition for excellence in scholarship. A further 7 papers were still under consideration or revision, and it has been assessed that at least 4 of these would probably also have been accepted (and eventually published). Among these papers, one very controversial example rewrote a chapter of Adolf Hitler's infamous book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) and was accepted for publication by the feminist social work journal Affilia (title: "Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism," available in full here, https://drive.google.com/file/d/18DoO44m2G5tvJcQaMdau6d8CSrdKDRBf/view). This paper has predictably garnered a great deal of attention and has been the center of much controversy, including recently in an article by the progressive Israeli magazine Haaretz, where Swedish "Hitler expert" Mikael Nilsson recently brought (https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-hitler-hoax-academic-wokeness-culture-war-1.9629759) the issue back up (dated March 21, 2021) two and a half years later. His objective was to discredit the entire Grievance Studies Affair by showing the infamous "Feminist Mein Kampf" paper to have been a fraud (and darling of "right-wing" nonsense). He even makes the argument that the paper rewrites the least bad part of Mein Kampf, which is easily revealed to be horrifically misguided and believable only by removing the relevant context of the chapter. On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay, who helped to write the paper and perpetrate the Grievance Studies Affair, talks about the project and the creation of this particular paper at unprecedented length and in unprecedented detail, revealing Nilssen not to know what he's talking about. If you have ever wondered about the backstory of the creation of the "Feminist Mein Kampf" paper really was, including why its authors did it, you won't want to miss this long-form discussion and rare response to yet another underinformed critic of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose's work. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2021 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, this is James Lindsay, you are listening to the new Discourses podcast.
0:27.0	We're going to do something I never do.
0:29.4	I never really respond to the majority of my critics because it's mostly a waste of time.
0:35.4	I'd rather move forward than look backwards.
0:37.8	I would rather produce new and valuable content rather than pouring over and giving attention
0:42.8	to stuff that's usually not very serious.
0:46.6	But today I'm going to make an exception.
0:48.4	Today I'm going to talk about this article that came out the other day and the progressive
0:55.2	Israeli outlet, Horits, opinion by, where's the author's name, Michael Nielsen, which came
1:05.3	out the 21st of March this year.
1:08.9	And his opinion is, mine comp and the feminazies, with three academics, Hitler hoax, really
1:15.6	reveals about wokeness.
1:18.6	So I'm going to talk about the grieving studies affair and in particular I'm going to end up
1:21.1	talking about this mine comp, rewrite paper and papers that we did, but I'm going to just
1:26.3	kind of go through Nielsen's nonsense here and do something I never do, which is respond
1:32.9	to my critics.
1:33.9	You'll love this.
1:34.9	So we're going to talk about the grieving studies affair, what was going on and what is
1:37.8	this thing about a rewrite of Hitler that got accepted by a feminist social work journal
1:46.6	at the academic level called Afilia.
1:50.0	So the little blurb beneath the abnormally long title of this essay reads when a feminist
1:58.5	rewrite in scare quotes of Hitler's autobiographical manifesto was accepted for publication.
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